Abstract:In this paper, we use composite pollution index dividing 29 manufacturing industries in Guangdong into three categories: light polluting industries, moderate polluting industries and severe polluting ones. Firstly, according to industry classification, we can get difference-based Luenberger Productivity Indicators and the decomposited indictors on the basis of the slack-based measured directional distance function (SBM-DDF), then calculate the industries’ Green Total Factor Productivity (GTFP) from 2004 to 2012. Secondly, we empirically analyse the GTFP influencing factors to reveal the degree of feedback on three industry categories. The results found that the feedback of GTFP and its decompositions on the economic factors varies: profitability (ratio of profits to cost) and industry development (gross industry production per labor) are the two main variables which significantly impact GTFP and its decompositions. The growth on gross industry production per labor hindered the growth of GTFP of severe and moderate pollution industries, while improved the technical efficiency of light pollution industries; enhanced profitability could benefit the GTFP on three types of industry through the decomposition of GTFP index improvement or other media. In addition, foreign investment percentage have significant negative impact only on light polluting industries’ GTFP, at the same time, foreign investment percentage didn’t significantly affect heavy polluting industries so that the pollution haven hypothesis couldn’t be confirmed in Guangdong; the proportion of coal consumption only improved GTFP of heavy polluting industries. Government should encourage industrial restructuring and upgrading as well as make policies applied to different kinds of industries and adjust different innovation incentive strategy to industries which are in the growth stage and maturation one.